- 21. Protesters Call For More Focus On Violence Against Trans Women Of Color At CNN’s LGBTQ Town Hall
- (Feminism)
- ... black trans woman, and I deserve to be here.” She expressed frustration that a black trans person had yet to ask a question. “That’s how anti-blackness works. That’s how erasure works,” she stated. “CNN, ...
- Created on 11 October 2019
- 22. The Racist Origins Of Fatphobia
- (Feminism)
- Why do Americans cherish thinness while condemning heaviness? According to sociologist Sabrina Strings, contemporary fatphobia has roots in anti-Blackness. Here, she explains how corpulence became associated ...
- Created on 10 October 2019
- 23. Fat Roles and Fat Rolls: What the Ursula Casting Tells Us About Roles for Fat Women and Femmes
- (Movies)
- ... at the time are pitted against each other. Before I go further, I want to make a note on Ursula’s Blackness. Whether she is Black or not is a matter of debate, but there is definitely a ...
- Created on 02 August 2019
- 24. At Least 12 Trans People Have Been Murdered This Year—And All Of Them Were Black Women
- (Feminism)
- ... in line with the focus of Black Lives Matter. As said by Cullors, “Anti-Blackness is at the center of the murder of Black trans woman.” And Black trans people have been influential in the movement’s advancement: ...
- Created on 25 July 2019
- 25. Serena Williams Reflects on Anger and Sexist Double Standards in a Personal Essay
- (Entertainment)
- ... directly. In her letter, Williams underscores that this story is as much about antiblackness as it is about sexism. She told Osaka how disappointed she was to witness the media pit two women of color ...
- Created on 10 July 2019
- 26. I Couldn't See What Dieting Cost Me Until I Gave It U
- (Feminism)
- ... fluent: points, BMI, “food addiction,” calories in calories out, willpower, “this time...” I saw how entangled my fatphobia was with anti-blackness. I learned to be ruthless in my appraisal of any eating ...
- Created on 30 January 2019
- 27. There's A New Solange Album Coming Soon, And We Are Read
- (Music)
- ... We were collectively blown away by Solange’s third studio album, released in 2016, A Seat At The Table, which explores themes of Blackness, home, and identity. Stylistically and lyrically rich, it provided ...
- Created on 15 October 2018
- 28. 11 Feminist Rappers You Should Be Listening To
- (Music)
- ... with empowerment and self-love and melt the faces off of anyone who said they couldn’t. Here are 11 rappers whose music celebrates womanhood, heritage, queerness, Blackness, intersectionality, and more. ...
- Created on 25 July 2018
- 29. 6 Podcasts Hosted By Black People You Should Be Listening To
- (Entertainment)
- ... of women of color and produced by Serita Wesley—discusses the fact that there is no place where black women don't belong; it’s just about finding those pockets of blackness. In the last episode, they showed ...
- Created on 23 May 2018
- 30. Photographer Aline Smithson Makes The Familiar Look Beautiful And Bizarre: Lady Shooters
- (Arts)
- Photographer Aline Smithson has been creating beautiful and bizarre works of art for more than 20 years. I chatted via email with the founder of the influential online photo magazine Lenscratch, and ...
- Created on 04 May 2018
- 31. "Dear White People's" Second Season Is Everything: Watch Closel
- (TV)
- ... students conflicted about the representation of Blackness onscreen. Samantha White, played by Logan Browning, is still dealing with internal conflict about being biracial this season. This is shown twice: ...
- Created on 30 April 2018
- 32. Dear White Sisters: Please Don't Misuse Beyonc
- (Feminism)
- ... a black woman isn’t just about these things. But "Freedom" is a hymn for the ways our lives uniquely are about these things. It’s a song about how we abide. (I’d never trade my blackness for whiteness. ...
- Created on 25 April 2018
- 33. Why Beyoncé's #Beychella Performance Is So Importan
- (Music)
- ... Even though the Coachella audience’s lack of diversity naturally reflects the festival's past headliners, that didn't deter Beyoncé from making this performance a beacon of blackness. In fact, that performance ...
- Created on 18 April 2018
- 34. Tiffany Haddish Is Producing A Comedy Series About Black Female Beauty
- (TV)
- ... at HBO. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Unsubscribed “will examine female blackness, beauty and identity through a behind-the-scenes look at the Instagram hustle.” Haddish will be joined by co-writers ...
- Created on 06 April 2018
- 35. The Surprisingly Subversive History Of Beauty Pageants
- (Feminism)
- ... heights in the cultural imagination. Therefore, in looking to the Miss America Pageant, the NAACP Atlantic City chapter recognized a prime opportunity to help shape the narratives of both blackness and ...
- Created on 14 March 2018
- 36. 4 New Books By Black Feminists You Need To Read
- (Books)
- ... a punch while describing the realities of blackness in America. Oluo’s approach is blunt. (“You’re going to screw this up royally. More than once,” she tells white readers.) And because she has multiple ...
- Created on 15 February 2018
- 37. On Being Fat In Ways White Girls Don’t Understand
- (Feminism)
- ... of fatness, blackness, and womanhood. But the combination does, indeed, matter. The confluence of fatness (which is, in this culture, asexual), blackness (which is dumb and animalistic), and womanness ...
- Created on 08 February 2018
- 38. Week Of Women: January 19-25, 2018
- (Entertainment)
- ... So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo The Establishment editor-at-large Ijeoma Oluo released a series of essays about "the realities of blackness in America," in which "intersectionality ...
- Created on 18 January 2018
- 39. Dove Shared A Blatantly Racist Ad — And It's Not The First Tim
- (Feminism)
- ... long history in this country of soap ads promising the bleaching of black skin – part of an even longer line of erasure of blackness. When hashtags like #blackgirlmagic are poppin’ online, it’s shocking ...
- Created on 09 October 2017
- 40. W. Kamau Bell On White Supremacy In The White House: BUST Interview
- (Entertainment)
- ... the world?” to seeing “pieces of myself in very different expressions of blackness.” When asked about the controversy that arose after Spencer appeared on Bell’s CNN show, United Shades of America, he ...
- Created on 31 July 2017
